Application: service-manual-frontend

Serves the Service Manual and Service Toolkit on GOV.UK

• GitHub: service-manual-frontend
• Ownership: #govuk-platform-health
• Hosting: AWS, on the draft_frontend machine class
• Rake tasks: Run a Rake task on Integration, Staging or ⚠️ Production ⚠️
• Links:
  • Sentry (error tracking)
  • Puppet configuration
  • Deploy scripts
  • Deployment dashboard
  • Publishing E2E scenarios (warning: not all apps have E2E tests)

Example pages rendered by service-manual-frontend

• Service Standard
• Service Manual
• Agile delivery
• How the discovery phase works
• How the alpha phase works
• How the beta phase works
• Understanding WCAG 2.1
• User research
• Making your service accessible: an introduction
• What each role does in a service team

README

A public-facing GOV.UK application used to display the service manual with content fetched from the Content Store.

Live examples

• https://www.gov.uk/service-manual
• https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/agile-delivery
• https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/agile-delivery/agile-methodologies

Technical documentation

This is a Ruby on Rails app, and should follow our Rails app conventions.

You can use the GOV.UK Docker environment or the local startup.sh script to run the app. Read the guidance on local frontend development to find out more about each approach, before you get started.

If you are using GOV.UK Docker, remember to combine it with the commands that follow. See the GOV.UK Docker usage instructions for examples.

Running the test suite

bundle exec rake

Licence

MIT License